A pair of hikers in New York called emergency services to report that a third member of their group had died, but when a park ranger responded to rescue them it turned out they were just high on hallucinogenic mushrooms, officials say.
The third hiker was uninjured - and not dead - and the hikers were “in an altered mental state”, according to a report issued by parks officials.
The incident took place on 24 May on Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks High Peaks of upstate New York.
The third person also called 911 during the hike, “and was not injured”, the report states. They were allowed to continue their camping trip, while the pair were taken to police.
Well, all’s well that ends well, innit
Taken to police… For wasting their time? I’m confused what actual harm they did.
Oh no they ate a fungus. Hardened criminals. Probably ms13. Gotta deport them now.
It cost money to do a Police response
I’m sure their massively inflated budget can handle it. Presumably the hikers pay their taxes.
They don’t have a huge budget. There really aren’t that many NYS rangers and they work pretty hard.
In the past they didn’t carry guns and focused mostly on search and rescue, appropriate use, etc., but they carry guns now which was not a popular change for a lot of them.
NYS rangers
How did I miss that part? That’s on me.
Yeah state parks, rangers, and anything that positively manages government land has always gotten the short end of the stick. The state police aren’t as militarily kitted out as some local PDs, at least in my experience.
A state park near where I grew up was basically begging for volunteers because they didn’t have the budget to take care of the park more than 3ft from the parking lot. (mild exaggeration, but you get the idea)
This whole time I’ve been thinking its some local city cops with too much time and not enough training…
It also costs money to take them into custody
So I’m rappelling down Mount Vesuvius when suddenly I slip, and I start to fall. Just falling, ahh, ahh. I’ll never forget the terror. When suddenly I realize, "Holy shit, Hansel, haven’t you been smoking peyote for six straight days and couldn’t some of this maybe be in your mind?
Bro did you fucking see that? Did Mike fucking die? Is this really real right now? Fuck fuck fuck. What do we do? Do we call the cops? No, maybe it’s not real. Fuck. What if Mike really did die? Bro, fuck. I can’t do this right now. Should we call the cops bro? Fuck bro. Let’s call the cops.
*looks at phone*
Fuck bro what is this object?
Still beats what happened to my coworker a little over a year ago. He did LSD with a friend, and the friend murdered him. It was pretty crazy to find out about.
Sounds like a bs story
It’s always tough to learn your friends do drugs
I hate it when that happens.
Ego death. It seems the 3rd friend has transcended to a higher plane of consciousness
I’m pretty sure it was not a fun trip for the 2 that thought their friend was dead. The one that was “dead” was probably laughing their ass off.
The hike or the body?
If police had been first to respond instead of park rangers, they’d probably be dead.
Instead, at least one of them was even allowed to return to the campsite.
Why would you do shrooms while hiking? Darwin awards a comin’…
It makes it way more fun
It beats doing it in the middle of an urban hellscape
